"What exactly are you doing here?" Lily asked her sister.
"Visiting you, of course," Petunia said, forcing a smiling.
"No, really, what happened, Petty?" Lily asked crossing her arms. Her sister never just 'dropped by' for fun.
"I told you, don't call my Petty!" Petunia said, "It's Petunia!" She crossed her arms, imitating Lily. Lily looked closely at Petunia's left hand. Her vacant left ring finger, to be exact.
"Why aren't you wearing your engagement ring?" Lily asked. 'Oh no, now she's lost it and I'll have to look for it. We couldn't use magic to find it though; we'll have to do it the Muggle way. Wonderful. Wait, why is Petunia starting to tear up?' Lily thought. It was true, Petunia was fighting back tears. "Petty?" Lily said again and a flood of tears ran down Petunia's cheeks as she ran to her sister's arms for a hug.
"Has anybody seen Lily lately?" James asked the group at lunch.
"Not since she was called away during Charms, but I'm sure she's fine," Norma said quickly when she saw James's worried face.
"What happened? Why did they take her away?" James asked frantically.
"You sound like you're in those corny Muggle movies, Padfoot, calm down," Sirius said. "They took her away! Ahhh!" Sirius put his hand on his forehead like a damsel in distress kind of fashion.
"The headmaster's voice just said that Lily had to go to the Main Hall immediately," Norma said calmly. "Hey, where's Remus?"
"Full moon last night," Sirius said quietly.
"Really?" James said surprised. Had he missed it?
"Yeah, and Moony was kind of upset you missed it, Padfoot. Where were you?" Sirius asked suspiciously. "Were you with Lily?" Lately, James tried to spend every waking moment with Lily or doing something to please Lily. He even started studying. It was getting a bit creepy.
"Yes, I was," said James.
At the same time, Norma said, "No, Lily was in our room doing her History of Magic paper on the past Ministers of Magic." Sirius glared at James. James mumbled that he had to go and got up and left quickly.
He left so quickly, he ran into Sara on the way up to the common room. "Watch where you're going, James. Lily doesn't like clumsiness," Sara said sarcastically.
"Don't talk to me, Mallot," James snarled.
"What did I ever do to you?" Sara asked innocently.
"Ever since your brother came here and that stupid Halloween Dance, Lily's been distant," James said. "No matter what I do, I can't make her happy. She's too upset that she lost a friend. I don't know why. I'm glad you're not around anymore. But I'm sure you don't care, do you, Death Eater?" James walked off. Sara was so hurt she decided to skip lunch. She hardly ate lunch anymore anyway.
Instead of going to her own solitary living, Sara dared to go to Lily's room. She knocked on the door. She could hear people who had been talking stopping. 'James is probably telling her not to open the door,' Sara thought sourly. Finally, Lily barely opened the door. "Hi," Lily said weakly. "Um, do you want to come in? Ow! What? It's just Sara." Obviously, someone had hurt her when she asked of Sara had wanted to come in.
"I'd like to come in, but James doesn't want me to, so I'll leave," Sara said turning around.
"James isn't here," Lily said.
"Then, who's in there?" Sara asked. Lily sighed and opened the door. There sat a crying Petunia with tissues all over the room.
"Petty?" Sara asked.
"It's Petunia!" Petunia shrieked and threw a pillow at her. Luckily, Petunia had atrocious aim, so the pillow hit Lily's desk near the door and not Sara.
"Hey, your aim is getting better," Sara joked. "Oh, let me see that engagement ring!" Sara had heard so much about it, but now it seemed that Petunia was hiding her left hand. 'Oh no, did she lose it?' Sara thought.
Instead, Petunia burst out into tears. Lily silently pointed to the attached bathroom, telling Sara to go in there. Once Lily and Sara were in the bathroom, Lily explained. "Apparently, Vernon hasn't even proposed yet. There is no wedding! At least, not yet," Lily whispered. "Petunia's been lying to everyone, including mother."
"Wouldn't they notice that she didn't have a ring?" Sara asked.
"She said that 'Vernon was too practical to spend so much money on a ring' and that they didn't need anything to show how much they loved each other," Lily said, quoting Petunia. "She says 'It should be obvious, shouldn't it?' Can you believe her?"
"I must say that is humiliating," Sara said, "And we're talking about the girl who wore pigtail braids everyday to school until tenth grade."
"Speaking of humiliating…" Lily trailed on. "I'm sorry."
"It's okay, really," Sara said. "I mean, I understand what I did was wrong. I just have to accept my punishments."
"Not if you sit with us in the Dining Hall and get along," Lily said happily. "Then Dumbledore will convince all the teacher to let you move back here. I'd so love for you to live with Norma and me again."
"Truly?" Sara asked.
"Truly," Lily said hugging her friend. Soon there was a huge sob and Lily gave Sara a look as they walked out to console Petty. But someone beat her there.
"I hate you and your brother!" Petunia was screaming at Freddy.
"I just came here to see Lily," Freddy defended himself.
"Why doesn't he love me? Am I ugly?" Petunia asked Freddy. "Am I fat? I'm fat, aren't I? I'm fat and ugly and nobody loves me."
"My brother likes you," Freddy said, trying to make this crazy woman happy.
"But he doesn't love me!" Petunia said falling unto the bed.
"Yes he does, didn't he show you the letter he sent me?" Freddy said, taking the hate letter out of his backpack. He showed it to Petunia.
"He does love me!" Petunia cried when she was done reading (which, actually, took a while).
"He's just scared to propose," Freddy said simply. Freddy saw Lily in the bathroom door with Sara. He smiled, and Lily smiled back. Sara smiled back extra nicely. Freddy walked over and whispered, "Is she always like this?" Lily chuckled, but Sara outright howled. Interesting…
(Thanks for your reviews! Does Vernon know where Petunia is? Will James be happy that Lily and Sara are friends again? Will Lily care? Does Sara like Freddy and vice versa? Please Review!)
